A place in Lincolnshire with a history you can trace through the records: its entry in the 1086 Domesday Book, the archaeological finds and scheduled monuments around it, and the nearest Roman sites and battlefields. Everything below is drawn from the historical record.
In 1086, Trusthorpe was held by Herbert (son of Aubrey).
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Trusthorpe in 1086, they recorded 2 manors held by Herbert (son of Aubrey) and Earl Hugh (of Chester), under York (St Peter), archbishop of. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by Healfdene (son of Topi) and Earl Harold.
The settlement was assessed at 18.5 hides for tax. There was land for 21 ploughs, with 16.5 plough teams at work. The recorded population was 117 heads of household: 25 villagers, 23 smallholders and 69 freemen. These are heads of household, so the settlement's true population was several times larger. Its recorded resources included meadow (40 acres).
The Domesday Book was the great survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror in 1085 and completed in 1086, the oldest surviving public record in the country. How the survey worked →
Trusthorpe was one of the settlements recorded in Lincolnshire in the 1086 survey. Lincolnshire in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Trusthorpe's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Nationally registered historic battlefields within 25 miles of Trusthorpe.
22 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Trusthorpe, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Trusthorpe is White Chalk Subgroup (Maastrichtian).
Aubrey's full report for this location includes every Domesday manor, the complete record of medieval lordship, archaeological context, and the story of how this settlement evolved from 1086 to the present day.